Child protection counting rules
New releases
Adoptions Australia 2008-09 (5 February 2010)
Child protection Australia 2008-09 (21 January 2010)
Progress of the Northern Territory Emergency Response Child Health Check Initiative: update on results from the Child Health Check and follow-up data collections (4 December 2009)
AIHW Access no. 26: 2009 (13 November 2009)
Juvenile justice in Australia 2007-08 (4 November 2009)
The child protection counting rules specify the standards for the data that are provided by the States and Territories for the national child protection data collection. The AIHW distributes these counting rules at the end of the financial year to all jurisdictions. The counting rules aim to ensure that the child protection data are as comparable as possible - however each State and Territory has its own legislation, policies and practices in relation to child protection, so that there are differences between jurisdictions in the data provided.
The data provided by the States and Territories are published in the AIHW annual report Child protection Australia and in the Report on Government Services [external link].
There are three separate child protection collections. To view the data collection standards, tables and counting rules, click on the following:
- Child protection notifications, investigations and substantiation Australia 2007-08 (845KB DOC)
- Children on care and protection orders Australia 2007-08 (680KB DOC)
- Children in out-of-home care Australia 2007-08 (695KB DOC)
- Intensive family support services Australia 2007-08 (126KB DOC)
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